There could be many reasons why you need to restore a database. Let’s look at some common reasons. The server has been re-installed, after failure. The database gets corrupted or is not mounting.

Exchange Server 2010 incorporates a number of high-availability features that system admins will find useful, including a new database availability groups (DAG) feature. Mailbox databases and the data ...

A litte backstory: We use Quest's MailArchive and the process failed for some time so the mailbox used for Archiving ballooned to about 78GB according to get-mailboxstatistics. We started the process, ...

An Exchange Server database plays a pivotal role in smooth functioning of the business as it stores critical data, such as user mailboxes, archives, public folders, etc. However, sometimes, due to ...

Synopsis: I have an Exchange 2003 database file, but the server that uses it is dead. How do I get another Exchange server to mount that file as a mailbox store?<BR><BR>Detail: We have two Exchange ...

Despite what your users might think, you're not limiting the size of their mailboxes as a form of punishment. Most users want to be able to keep all their e-mail messages indefinitely. On the other ...

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...